Backend Engineer - Python/FastAPI

Tech Stack

What works : FastAPI, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Python 3.11+

What you'll choose : Async framework, message broker, observability stack, celery queues, LLM calls

Technical Requirements

Must-Have Distributed Systems Experience :

• 2+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling >5K concurrent requests in production
• Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic
• Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale
• Deep understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed transaction management
• Hands-on experience with CDN optimization and edge computing for global/multi-region deployments

Proven ability to optimize systems achieving <100ms P99 latency for critical user-facing operations

Responsibilities

Performance: Maintain <200ms P95 latency for all user-critical operations at 10x current scale

• Incident Reduction: Implement monitoring and automation that reduces production incidents by 80%
• Team Enablement: Create platform abstractions that let product teams ship features 3x faster
  
  

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Skills Required
Replication, FastAPI, Message Broker, Redis, Aws, Postgresql